{"id":51526,"date":"2022-05-09T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51526"},"modified":"2022-05-09T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T22:30:10","slug":"yep-biden-took-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51526","title":{"rendered":"Yep, Biden took the call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Franklin Foer has smashed a myth about President Biden, that the president is too weak and not up to the myriad tasks that befall a POTUS at any hour of the day … or night.<\/p>\n

Foer, writing an essay in The Atlantic, points out quite vividly that Joe Biden “answered the call” that came to him around 3 a.m.<\/p>\n

He writes about the time Hillary Clinton sought to exploit 2008 presidential campaign rival Barack Obama’s inexperience with an ad that wondered whether the future president would be able to “answer the call.” Well, he did answer the call, just as Joe Biden is doing now.<\/p>\n

Biden Answered the 3 a.m. Call – The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n

As his article in The Atlantic noted about Biden’s response to the Ukraine War: Joe Biden hasn\u2019t received the full credit he deserves for his statecraft during this crisis, because he has pursued a policy of self-effacement. Rather than touting his accomplishments in mobilizing a unified global response to the invasion, he has portrayed the stringent sanctions as the triumph of an alliance. By carefully limiting his own public role\u2014and letting France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron and Germany\u2019s Olaf Scholz take turns as the lead faces of NATO\u2014he has left Vladimir Putin with little opportunity to portray the conflict as a standoff with the United States, a narrative that the Russian leader would clearly prefer. He\u2019s shown how to wield American leadership in the face of deep European ambivalence about its exercise.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Trumpkins among us keep telling us that Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine were The Donald still in the White House. Hmm. Probably not. Likely because The Donald would have looked the other way while Putin sought to bring neighboring states to heel.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden has performed masterfully in applying his diplomatic skill and experience to produce a united front throughout Europe against the unprovoked, illegal, immoral invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

To suggest that the president of the United States has failed in responding to an urgent world crisis is to talk utter trash.<\/p>\n

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Franklin Foer has smashed a myth about President Biden, that the president is too weak and not up to the myriad tasks that befall a POTUS at any hour of the day … or night. Foer, writing an essay in The Atlantic, points out quite vividly that Joe Biden “answered the call” that came to … Continue reading Yep, Biden took the call<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2505,9899,5125],"class_list":["post-51526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51527,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51526\/revisions\/51527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}